Colour Terminology in Modern Irish

A Comparative Study

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This work looks at basic colour terms in Modern Irish by presenting the historical development of these terms since their earliest attestation and in comparison with the other Gaelic languages, namely, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. These terms are analysed based on lexicographical and didactic material, as well as their use in placenames and proverbs, resources with great potential but which have been underused in colour terminology research in general. Its conclusion is the presentation of fieldwork results with native speakers from all major Irish dialects based on their responses to the colours of items in pictures, research which has never been previously conducted, to see whether their use of colour terminology matches that as presented, and to comment on the current state of Irish basic colour terminology.
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2023
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Mark Ó Fionnáin, Ph.D. (2011), the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is Associate Professor in the Department of Celtic Studies. He has published various articles on the Gaelic languages and related issues of translation.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures

General Introduction

1 Theoretical Background
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Pre-modern Research on Colours and Colour Terminology
 1.3 Modern Research on Basic Colour Terms
 1.4 Research on Goidelic Basic Colour Terms
 1.5 Lexicographical Works on the Goidelic Languages from a Diachronic Perspective
 1.6 Concluding Remarks

2 An Analysis of Goidelic Basic Colour Terms on the Basis of Lexicographical and Didactic Material
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 The Basic Colour Terms
 2.3 Common Celtic Basic Colour Terms
 2.4 The Historical Period from Old Irish onwards and the Shift in Colour Terminology
 2.5 Unsaturated and Semantically Specialised Colour Terms
 2.6 Modern Outside Influences
 2.7 Concluding Remarks

3 An Analysis of Sayings and Placenames
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Proverbs and Sayings
 3.3 Placenames
 3.4 Concluding Remarks

4 Fieldwork
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Fieldwork
 4.3 Concluding Remarks

5 Conclusions

Appendix 1: Pictures
Appendix 2: Questionnaire
References
Index
Researchers, scholars and students interested in the fields of colour studies, Celtic studies, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, language contact and contraction, and linguistic fieldwork.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 340 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004539730

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